Embed Travel Maps and Photos into Your Blog
Want to embed your Everlater trips into your blog? Now you can. Just click the “Tell your friends” button (which is shown below in the lower right hand corner of your trip page):
Then find the “Grab the embed code” button.
Copy and paste that code into any blog post (or any other web page), and you get a full map of your trip and a sampling of 5 photos. You can even navigate around the map and click into specific locations. Here is what my trip The Great Tagalong looks like when embedded into the latest post on my blog:
(click for a larger version)We’d love to hear from those of you that plan to use this embeddable travel journal on your blog. Get in touch, or post a link to your blog in the comments below so we can see how it turned out! (Thanks again to super developer / intern / board gamer Zac Clark who has more fun widgets up his sleeve)
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Done and done. Even gave you a good review on it. I wish the widget was a bit more advanced rather than just being a fancy link back to the site, but hey, I’m not gonna be too picky. Nice work peeps.
Thanks Nate, I just commented on your post (http://travel.perfectspace.com/europe/new-travel-blog-service). We’ll probably make a more advanced version someday…what else would you like to see it do?
I’d like to see full widget functionality as well. I’d recommend using something like lightBox for displaying images (http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/). As a user some of the expectations I had from a widget like this:
• Clicking a picture popped up the full-size image (lightBox)
• Being able to scroll through all thumbnails, simple left/right still on 1 row
• Clicking on a map icon would pull up a hovercard for that point w/ short description, dates, tiny thumbnails and optional link for more info. All of this could, again, be functional with jQuery popups and never leaving the site.
I see a huge opportunity here for everlater. Travel enthusiasts love writing, and many love having the creative freedom to express themselves through the design of their blog. Everlater.com blogs don’t exactly allow for this currently, so the alternative is a Wordpress/Tumblr solution which doesn’t necessarily have these travel tools built in place. A full-functional embed (and/or WP plug-in) would solve that problem. There’s nothing that says you couldn’t host your pictures in everlater - neatly mapped out with short descriptions of each stop - and have your writing on a wordpress install, still with lots of opportunity to display the everlater brand. The obvious freemium model here would be pro accounts could hold more data/higher quality images/no watermarks.
Paul, thanks for all the great ideas. We definitely want to make the widget even better…and your suggestions are a great starting point!
I don’t see a “tell my friends” button anywhere. Has it been removed now?
Sorry about that Steven…we’ve changed the layout a bit now. Click the “Share” button.
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